Bug#565706: grub2 enters rescue mode with fd0 cannot get C/H/S values

2010-03-10 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Thomas Stewart wrote: Hi, I had what appears to be a very similar issue. I had the floppy drives disabled in the bios. Once I enabled them as USB emulation, grub worked. I believe this bug to have been fixed in grub1.98. Please upgrade and retest Regards -- Tom

Bug#565706: grub2 enters rescue mode with fd0 cannot get C/H/S values

2010-03-02 Thread Tom Wright
I've found a workaround for this one by changing a BIOS setting - it doesn't fix the underlying issue though. The BIOS setting was Legacy USB which was set to Auto and I have now set to Disabled. This means that the BIOS doesn't start the USB devices, so GRUB can't see them and doesn't get

Bug#565706: grub2 enters rescue mode with fd0 cannot get C/H/S values

2010-02-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Tom Wright wrote: Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98~20100128-1.2 Severity: normal I am seeing the same problem: grub reports this on startup and then gets no further: error: fd0 cannot get C/H/S values. entering rescue mode Can you try the attached patch? My system has three RAID1 md

Bug#565706: grub2 enters rescue mode with fd0 cannot get C/H/S values

2010-02-24 Thread Tom Wright
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 09:58:05 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Can you try the attached patch? I've compiled grub with the patch applied and got this when I installed it: t...@thor ~/grub $ sudo dpkg -i grub-common_1.98~20100128-1.2_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 66521

Bug#565706: grub2 enters rescue mode with fd0 cannot get C/H/S values

2010-02-24 Thread Tom Wright
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 09:58:05 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Can you try the attached patch? I think the patch is segfaulting because it always destroys the grub_disk_t structure when returning from the grub_raid_register function, even if that grub_disk_t has been

Bug#565706: grub2 enters rescue mode with fd0 cannot get C/H/S values

2010-02-18 Thread Tom Wright
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98~20100128-1.2 Severity: normal I am seeing the same problem: grub reports this on startup and then gets no further: error: fd0 cannot get C/H/S values. entering rescue mode My system has three RAID1 md partitions across sda and sdb, containing swap, / and /boot